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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (115251)	1/8/2016 11:40:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By carranza2 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217792

It would be hard to hide all that in your sock. Or even in carry-on baggage. Checked luggage would not be so good as the owner could be concerned that baggage handlers might get curious and the heavy load misappropriated as the baggage handlers suddenly feel a need to retire from their jobs and go somewhere else. Quickly. As carry-on it would be a bit hefty to heave up and wouldn't really fit under the seat in front. It looks like a matter of driving to the coast and loading a boat en route to a happy place far from the MADding crowds. Kept in a bank vault it could get tempting for "the authorities" whoever they might turn out to be when push comes to shove. For some reason, my normal optimistic nature is not so much going into 2016. I suppose holding a dead canary in a coal mine could lead one to that feeling. Is it possible that the once in biological history experiment underway as we spin further into the 21st century will not remain in laminar flow as speed increases and the flow volume deepens while surface roughness increases? Surface roughness = among other things; debt payments, tax extraction, resource competition, superstitious ideologies, political aspirations, 200 million spare males in China getting edgy driven by the innate male nature seeking mating rights, fear and greed etc etc. I guess there is a Reynolds Number which will be reached causing the human laminar flow to suddenly flip to turbulent. It would be nice to be wearing a life jacket at the flip, with breathing apparatus, and crash helmet. It seems unlikely that 7,000,000,000 people who are closely related to chimps can go smoothly into the future. Such a colossal experiment has never been tried. It's a globally integrated and mutually co-dependent economic system with few people living self-sustaining lives on farms. In a simultaneous first in biological history, it's all based on the newly invented Cyberspace realm without which less and less can happen. The benefits of the experiment are so fantastic that perhaps the experiment will carry on with merely minor glitches. But the Reynolds number seems likely to be reached. The 19th century and early 20th century was a bit similar in a mini way as the industrial revolution and global trade got under way. But that early promise went bad 100 years ago with the advent of WWI, followed by the Great Depression, and then WWII. So far, the 21st century is wondrous. It seems unlikely to continue without the usual periodic outcome of human affairs = a battle between Good and Evil, the twin forces of consciousness which the four forces of the apocalypse depend on for their existence. No observer = no wave function change. en.wikipedia.org The stage is set for a LOT of fun. Meanwhile, the solar maximum is well past and with 2020 foresight, the big cooling of 2019 is not far away. Global warming will not be a worry. Climate change will be. Global Alarmists will have good cause for dismay, but not due to heat. Think Dalton minimum at least and possibly Maunder minimum = brrrr.. move towards equator. Then, in 2024, the next solar maximum will occur. While it will be a mini peak, the same as the low double peaks of the 1812 period including the invasion of Russia by Napoleon leading to the 1812 Overture, that does not mean there will not be a bonzo solar flare scoring a bulls eye on Earth. The effect of such solar blasts is that electrical devices get broken. That will mean no internet among other things. No internet in 2024 will be a very big problem. It would be a big problem now. But wait, there's more. It is hundreds of years since the Pacific Ocean has done its job which is to act as a bulls eye for a big bolide on a collision course with Gaia. Sea level rise due to Global Warming is of no concern as it would take 100 years and be trivial, if any. Sea level rise due to a bolide impact into the Pacific ocean will cause sea level rise of 100 metres [or maybe a kilometre]. Even 10 metres would be very annoying for people around the coast. That sea level rise happens in less than a second. That is a BIG problem. At the same time, Taupo caldera [Lake Taupo, which looks so peaceable] will launch 1000 km3 of pumice 50km into the sky. Yellowstone caldera might go out in sympathy, causing quite an effect in the northern hemisphere, especially so in north America. It was good while it lasted. Happy New Year and Gung Ho Fat Choy. Mqurice